New South Wales Consolidated Acts

RETIREMENT VILLAGES ACT 1999 - SECT 58A

58A Operator to provide safe premises

(1) The operator of a retirement village must ensure that the village generally is reasonably safe.

(2) In particular, the operator must:

(a) prepare written safety and emergency procedures, and

(b) take reasonable steps to ensure that all residents and staff are familiar with such procedures, and

(c) undertake a safety inspection at least once each year, and make a safety inspection report on the findings of any such inspection, and

(d) make a copy of the inspection report available to the Residents Committee for the retirement village (if any) and place a copy of the report on the notice board in a communal area within the retirement village, and

(e) take such other action as the regulations may require to ensure that the village generally is reasonably safe.

(3) Without limiting subsection (2) (e), the regulations may make provision for, or with respect to, the following:

(a) the form of the written safety and emergency procedures,

(b) the conduct of safety inspections required under subsection (2) (c),

(c) the manner and form of such a safety inspection report,

(d) the period that the safety inspection report is to remain on the notice board as referred to in subsection (2) (d).

(4) Any resident who believes in good faith that the retirement village is not reasonably safe may apply to the Tribunal for (and the Tribunal may make) any of the following:

(a) an order directing the operator to comply with subsection (1) or (2),

(b) any other order referred to in section 128 (1).